Artist

Banwari the Younger

Banwari the Younger is a Mughal Painting artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Banwari the Younger’s tiny paintings pack big surprises. This 16th-century artist hid little villages inside golden borders, each house a dot, every street a line. He loved blue: not flat blue, but layered, like the sky at dusk. His 1598 Untitled piece shows a whole town in a palm-sized panel—try counting the doors. You’ll need a magnifying glass. Gallery Tiles keeps his work around so you can zoom in on those blue shadows and wonder why someone made a world so small yet so alive.

Works by Banwari the Younger

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.